CityU and Sun Yat-Sen University sign agreement
With the signing of agreement, the two universities will strengthen legal education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Details of the agreement include: joint student recruitment and modules tutoring; mutual academic credits recognition (including student exchange); and joint conferral of degrees. Both universities also agreed to conduct joint academic conferences and lectures, teaching staff and student exchanges, joint research programs, library resource sharing, and academic journals and materials exchanges.
“The School has constantly made efforts to develop linkages and communication channels with organizations and institutions on the mainland,” said Professor Mike McConville, Dean of CityU’s School of Law (SLW) at the signing ceremony. CityU’s
Signing on behalf of the two universities were: Professor Liu Heng, Dean of Sun Yat-Sen University’s
To date, the SLW has formed connections with 11 mainland institutions and nine overseas tertiary law institutes, including: China University of Political Science and Law, People’s Procuratorate of Beijing Municipality; The East China University of Politics and Law; Fudan University; National Judges College; Northwest University of Political Science and Law; Peking University; Renmin University of China; Shenzhen University; Tsinghua University, Xian Intermediate People’s Court; the School of Law of Bond University in Australia; the Faculty of Law of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium; University of Law, Economics and Sciences of Aix-Marseilles in France; the School of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands; Sri Lanka Law College in Sri Lanka, Faculty of Law of University of Colombo in Sri Lanka; Jonkoping International Business School of Jonkoping University in Sweden; the Chicago-Kent College of Law of Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Washington College of Law of American University, US.